YUM! - video game food. [Archive] - Retrogaming Roundtable

diskoboy

04-24-2006, 02:41 AM

Here's an odd little question...

Back in the early-to-mid 80's, when video game liscensing ran rampant, there were tons of video game related food items.

Everything from Pac-Man spaghetti-o's to Nintendo Cereal.

For those of you old enough to remember, wht was your favorite video game food?

I loved Donkey Kong and DKjr cereal. Donkey Kong cereal tasted like Capn' Crunch, but looked like little barrels. DKjr. cereal was better. It had fruit flavored bits and wasn't yet another CC knockoff.

But my favorite had to be the lemon flavored Pac-Man popsicles that had the Fruit Punch flavored ghosts also in the box. They tasted like sherbert.

Later they added pink lemonade flavored Ms. Pac-Man's.

Vinnysdad

04-24-2006, 03:14 AM

I used to eat Pac Man cereal. That cereal was grub because it had marshmallow ghosts.

thetoxicone

04-24-2006, 09:11 AM

I have a pack of promo gummy snacks for the boogerman game, there are still sealed even though I doubt the candy is any good anymore, maybe I should dig that out of storage sometime

The Shawn

04-24-2006, 09:21 AM

Drag0nsfyre

04-24-2006, 10:26 AM

I used to eat that DK cereal all the time. LOL Yup just like you pointed out it was pretty much a CC ripoff but a damn tasty one at least. :D

ShinobiMan

04-24-2006, 12:35 PM

Super Mario Bros. / Legend Of Zelda cereal was my cereal of choice.

http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/8130_22124_19.jpg

I also used to get Game Gear Buggle Gum / Trading Card cases (the ones shaped like a game gear.)

http://www.clavis.ne.jp/~sonic/segasonic/act3/db/image/goods/sweet002.jpg

HardcoreGamer

04-24-2006, 12:53 PM

I enjoyed the Pac-Man cereal and Nintendo cereals.

s1lence

04-24-2006, 01:10 PM

I used to eat all those cereals as a kid until I discovered that they were made by Ralston, as in Ralston-Purina the pet food company. Still I do remember that the zelda one was pretty tastey.

DKTheArcadeRat

04-24-2006, 03:04 PM

InsaneDavid

04-24-2006, 03:22 PM

I used to eat all those cereals as a kid until I discovered that they were made by Ralston, as in Ralston-Purina the pet food company.

LOL ..kids. :)

I used to eat all that stuff, even if it tasted terrible. As I got older I pushed that trend aside. LOL I have a box of these from a few years ago that somehow has survived the temperature changes and high summer humidity here...

http://www.startoursinfo.com/junk/DP-nintendojellys01.jpg

Also Nintendo fruit snacks are still made (nothing like they used to be, but fruit snacks are nothing like they were in the mid 80's as a whole now days anyway) and they're alright.

diskoboy

04-24-2006, 05:49 PM

I still have the pac-man trading cards from when I was about 11.They had games on them that you would scratch off trying not to hit a ghost.I guess the only food related thing is it came with a stick of crusty gum.

Those were great! I still have a few of mine, in my old sticker album from when I was a kid.

I wonder if that gum would still be good, nowadays? Baseball card gum supposedly has an infinite shelf life. It just gets harder with age.. LOL

Matt-El

04-24-2006, 07:06 PM

How about Super Mario Bros. fruit snacks? Man, those kicked ASS!

cyberfluxor

04-24-2006, 07:38 PM

http://www.startoursinfo.com/junk/DP-nintendojellys01.jpg
MmmmMMMMMmmmmm, tasty!

-SuperYoshi-

04-24-2006, 08:07 PM

Though I am not old enough to remember those or have had some of those, there is one that I do remember(there might be more game related food but this came to mind), Sonic Spaghettio's, that is about all the gaming related food that I can remember at the moment. They were good, if you like spaghettios.

Dave
I definitley remember the Sonic Spaghettios. I recall a promo where some of the labels gave you a chance to win a Game Gear and other assorted Sonic stuff.

I also remember these Super Mario Bros. cookies. I used to love those.

MegaDrive20XX

04-24-2006, 08:26 PM

XYXZYZ

04-24-2006, 08:28 PM

I fleetingly remember Pac Man pasta from Chef Boyardee. I remember first grade, I'd go to school with my Pac Man lunchbox, and eat Pac Man pasta out of the thermos. Later I had an Atari lunchbox. Or maybe it was the other way around...

I do remember the Nintendo Cereal System well. I didin't like the SMB cereal very much on account of I don't like fruit cereals. I'd just eat the bag of Zelda cereal.

Those were good, but does anybody remember this? (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68186) <-click

MegaDrive20XX

04-24-2006, 08:28 PM

http://www.startoursinfo.com/junk/DP-nintendojellys01.jpg
MmmmMMMMMmmmmm, tasty!

Yoshi was the best flavor I remember. Wasn't Donkey Kong root beer flavored?

demonofaj

04-24-2006, 08:53 PM

Oooh, I was 4 around the time of NES and SNES....I ate sooooo much Nintendo cereal, the original one. Now remember, it was made out of hobos and cardboard. I think I'm sterile from the cereal! LOL

InsaneDavid

04-24-2006, 09:13 PM

http://www.startoursinfo.com/junk/DP-nintendojellys01.jpg
MmmmMMMMMmmmmm, tasty!

Yoshi was the best flavor I remember. Wasn't Donkey Kong root beer flavored?

Honestly they all tasted like crap to me so I never really ate them. However I bought a case of them (as in the large box filled with these 12 count boxes) when I was working for Target Corporation and always had a box of them open for the taking in my office. I originally kept two sealed ones but awhile ago some of my cousins wanted them so I opened a box and they were eaten. This last box will remain sealed however, until the candies go to pot. LOL

soundwave

04-24-2006, 10:05 PM

Super Mario Bros. / Legend Of Zelda cereal was my cereal of choice.

http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/8130_22124_19.jpg

ditto. I remember crunchin' on that cereal while watching CAPTAIN N on Saturday Morning back in 89'

Same here. I used to love that cereal. you got 2 bags in one box it was awesome! I also remember eating pac-man cereal a long time ago.

click the link for I-Mockery's report on both http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/nes/23.php

jboypacman

04-26-2006, 03:16 PM

pac-man cereal was the best i would have my folks buy it for me everytime they went to the store.

Jumpman Jr.

04-26-2006, 04:17 PM

Man, I definitely remember eating boxes and boxes of Kraft Dinner shaped like the Super Mario Bros. characters. I'm not sure why, but I always seemed to like the taste (even though they all tasted the same) of Princess. I remember my friend would always save all the Princesses off of his plate and give them to me because I liked them so much.
MMMmmm... Princess.

funksoulfather

04-26-2006, 07:22 PM

I remember eating Bubble gum that came from plastic cases that resembled gameboys. I think there were tips for games on cards that aslo came with the gum.

I remember finding gum with Nintendo characters stamped onto the pieces at a dollar store. It looked a little shifty to begin with, but after sampling them I knew they were unliscensed. Probably some company in Taiwan trying to make a buck.

Matt-El

04-26-2006, 07:26 PM

What about Life Savers or Lunchables? Though not exactly "Video Game Food", one of the main things that I bought Lunchables for was to get upc codes for that video of Sonic and Knuckles secrets. I was one away from getting it too!

Cryomancer

04-26-2006, 08:19 PM

I liked the little cans of mario-character soda you could get. also the turtles juice boxes if those count.

I do remember seeing the Sonic pasta though, makes sense, rings and all. I've got some ads from the sonic lifesafers promotion somewhere as well.

InsaneDavid

04-26-2006, 11:32 PM

I liked the little cans of mario-character soda you could get.

Ahh, the finest cross promotion in the softdrink industry, brought to you by Shasta. You know one of the local $1 stores had a bunch of those a couple years ago. It never occured to me to, I dunno, buy a few and just keep them - or even just keep the cans. As a soda connaisseur (http://www.sodaking.com) I still kick myself for being so supid. :/